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fix(usage): persist host fingerprints across container recreates#15626

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Container recreation changes the hostname and makes persisted provider history appear to come from a new usage source. The server now saves the first hostname in <T3 home>/usage-host-id, reuses it across restarts, and honors a trimmed T3CODE_HOST_ID override without changing the saved identity.

Initial publication uses a completed temporary file and a no-clobber hard link; concurrent starters adopt the saved winner. Unreadable or unavailable persistence falls back to the current hostname. Filesystems without hard-link support retain that fallback.

Credits to @maria-rcks for the original fix in #15626, following the accepted direction. Contributor history is preserved; current main was merged rather than rebased.

Verification on 702652e512:

  • Original PR: one regression test. Takeover: two tests in the existing UsageService.test.ts, preserving all 41 main cases. The original fix produced 42 passing cases and one deterministic concurrency failure; the rebuilt implementation passes all 43.
  • Scoped lint and formatting, server typecheck, and diff checks pass (existing warnings/suggestions only).
  • Ran the actual UsageService.readSummary against a synthetic Claude transcript in four disposable Docker containers with a shared bind-mounted T3 home. Real hostnames A → B → C → D produced fingerprint host IDs A → A → physical-host → A. The override was present only in C; the saved identity stayed A throughout. Network was disabled; pricing/background services were stubbed. This proves the container/service path, not a live provider account or client UI.
  • Independent Opus 5.5 and GPT-6-Sol review: round 1 found no blockers; both independently confirmed the historical race is fixed.
  • No screenshot is applicable to this server identity change. macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, packaged Electron, alternate filesystem drivers, and live-provider/client flows were not verified. Human review/approval remains required; this PR is unmerged.

Closes #11849.

Tests: GPT-6-Astra; implementation: GPT-6.1-Sol; reviews: Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6-Sol. Codex and Claude Code harnesses in T3 Code.

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📝 Walkthrough

The server selects a usage host ID from T3CODE_HOST_ID, a saved ID in T3 home, or the current hostname. It saves the hostname when neither an override nor a saved ID exists. Tests and documentation cover persistence and the override.

Changes: Usage Host Identity

Layer / File(s)Summary
Resolve and use the usage host ID
apps/server/src/usage/UsageService.ts		UsageService.make selects a trimmed T3CODE_HOST_ID, a saved ID, or the current hostname. When neither an override nor a saved ID exists, it attempts to save the hostname. Usage sources use the selected ID.
Test and document host identity
apps/server/src/usage/UsageService.test.ts, docs/user/usage.md		Tests verify that the hostname-derived ID persists across hostname changes and that T3CODE_HOST_ID overrides it. Documentation describes the saved ID and the override.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e0125

Simultaneous servers sharing T3 home may temporarily attribute usage to different hosts. The change is otherwise mergeable with this concurrency risk understood or corrected.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e0125

The change is limited to usage-source identification and does not establish a new authentication or authorization path. However, concurrent processes can select different identities for the same newly initialized home directory. Storage failures and rollback can also change the identity used for reporting.

Retained concerns

  • Low · architecture · inferred: If processes with different hostnames concurrently initialize the same home directory without a saved identity, each can retain its own hostname while atomic replacement leaves the last writer's identity on disk. Atomic publication prevents torn contents but does not establish first-writer ownership. Consequently, running instances and later restarts can disagree about the identity of the same usage source. Shared-directory deployment frequency is unverified; this affects usage attribution, not an established security principal.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The confirmed effect is bounded to source attribution for servers using the configured identity and clients merging their summaries. Shared-home identity disagreement can affect duplicate suppression; the inspected flow does not establish tenant access, credential authority, or infrastructure privilege changes.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new read trusts trimmed contents of baseDir/usage-host-id. The existing write helper resolves symlink targets before replacement, so it does not enforce confinement to that directory. Exploitation would require control over relevant local filesystem state; no lower-trust writer or new remote path to that state was established by this review.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Persistence outages favor availability over stable attribution. Because every read failure becomes an absent identity, recovery can attempt replacement using the current hostname rather than preserving the previously established owner. This is an identity-lifecycle limitation, not an observed authorization bypass.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Establish first-writer ownership with exclusive publication and have competing initializers adopt the persisted winner. Distinguish an absent identity from an unreadable existing identity so recovery does not silently replace established ownership.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 6
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Linked Issues checkPassedThe description links and closes issue #11849 and identifies the maintainer-approved suggested fix that guides the implementation.
Out of Scope Changes checkPassedThe service logic, tests, and documentation directly support stable usage host identity across container recreates. No unrelated changes are described.
Linked Issues checkPassedIssue #11849 requires one stable usage identity when the persisted T3 home survives a container recreate. UsageService.make reads config.baseDir/usage-host-id, writes the first hostname through `w…
Out of Scope Changes checkPassedThe changes are limited to UsageService.ts, its tests, and docs/user/usage.md. The implementation, tests, and documentation directly support the stable usage identity required by issue #11849. No …
Title checkPassedThe title clearly and concisely describes the main change: persisting usage host fingerprints across container recreations.
Description checkPassedThe description provides the problem, implementation details, approval and issue references, focused verification results, limitations, and agent attribution. It does not use the template headings, bu…
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Explanation

Issue #11849 requires one stable usage identity when the persisted T3 home survives a container recreate. UsageService.make reads config.baseDir/usage-host-id, writes the first hostname through writeFileStringAtomically, and reuses the saved value. A trimmed T3CODE_HOST_ID takes precedence without changing the saved value. Read or write failures fall back to the current hostname. The new service test covers changing hostnames and override behavior. The documentation records the persistence path and override.

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The changes are limited to UsageService.ts, its tests, and docs/user/usage.md. The implementation, tests, and documentation directly support the stable usage identity required by issue #11849. No unrelated change is shown.

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The description provides the problem, implementation details, approval and issue references, focused verification results, limitations, and agent attribution. It does not use the template headings, but the required information is present and sufficiently complete.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This changes the default production behavior for usage fingerprints by replacing the current hostname with a persisted first hostname, while also adding an explicit identity override and startup persistence logic. The scope is focused and tested, but the default behavior change warrants human review.

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Mmaria23d ago

Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

The default identity change follows the maintainer's accepted triage and suggested fix: "Persist the first-seen hostname ... on the T3 volume and reuse it after recreate" and/or honor T3CODE_HOST_ID, keeping the hostname as fallback. The PR body now links that direction directly.

The persisted value starts as the existing hostname, so initial non-container and sibling-worktree fingerprints retain the same host/path/volume key. The changed behavior stabilizes that key when the disposable hostname changes. Existing-file regressions verify unchanged shared-history totals, distinct hosts, restart/override removal, concurrent initialization, and unavailable persistence; all 70 scoped Blacksmith tests and exact-head CI passed at 2a9a7a44d3e4c793f4bafa42414eb86f26a021e9.

Actual Docker recreation and the live provider/client path remain unverified and are disclosed in the body. This evidence does not establish merge readiness; that runtime pass and two independent final reviews remain pending with the parent task.

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8- Around line 258-259: Update the initial host ID initialization around
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apps/server/src/usage/UsageService.tslines 258–259Outdated · e01255dOpen thread
……@@ -247,6 +247,18 @@ export const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
256+ );
257+ const explicitHostId = hostEnvironment["T3CODE_HOST_ID"]?.trim();
258+ if (!explicitHostId && !persistedHostId) {
259+ yield* writeCacheFile(hostIdPath, `${hostname}\n`).pipe(Effect.ignore);
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1#!/bin/bash
2# Inspect publication semantics and any cross-process coordination.
3rg -n -C 6 'writeFileStringAtomically|usage-host-id|rename|link\(' apps/server/src packages

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1set -eu
2printf '%s\n' '--- atomic writer definitions ---'
3rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'export const writeFileStringAtomically' packages apps || true
4rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'function writeFileStringAtomically' packages apps || true
5rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'writeFileStringAtomically' packages/shared apps/server/src/usage packages/provider-cursor/src/server || true
6printf '%s\n' '--- UsageService block ---'
7nl -ba apps/server/src/usage/UsageService.ts | sed -n '220,285p'
8printf '%s\n' '--- candidate writer files ---'
9rg --files packages/shared | rg 'atomic|write'
10printf '%s\n' '--- focused atomic writer source ---'
11for f in $(rg -l -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'writeFileStringAtomically' packages/shared apps/server/src/usage packages/provider-cursor/src/server); do
12 printf '%s\n' "--- $f ---"
13 nl -ba "$f" | sed -n '1,180p'
14done
15printf '%s\n' '--- focused usage tests ---'
16rg -n -C 8 -F --glob '*Usage*.test.ts' -- 'usage-host-id|concurrent|hostname|writeFileStringAtomically' apps/server packages || true

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Use no-clobber publication for the initial host ID.

writeFileStringAtomically replaces the destination. Two instances can read a missing usage-host-id, write different hostnames, and then keep their own hostname because the write result is ignored and the value is not read back. This can split one startup across different usage host IDs.

Publish the file with no-clobber semantics, then read the winning value before selecting hostId. Alternatively, serialize initialization across processes. A read-back without no-clobber publication or a cross-process lock is not sufficient. Preserve T3CODE_HOST_ID precedence.

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6Review comment at @apps/server/src/usage/UsageService.ts around lines 258 - 259:
7Update the initial host ID initialization around explicitHostId,
8persistedHostId, and writeCacheFile to publish the hostname with no-clobber
9semantics, then read the persisted winning value before selecting hostId.
10Preserve T3CODE_HOST_ID precedence and ensure concurrent instances use the same
11published host ID.
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JJulius Marminge8d ago

Fixed in 702652e. The completed temporary file is published by a no-clobber hard link, and both initializers read back the persisted winner. The deterministic two-initializer regression failed on the old fix and passes now; all 43 UsageService cases pass. Both independent reviewers confirmed this finding is resolved.

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JJulius Marminge8d ago

Taking over this one as maintainer for batch usage-billing-02. I will preserve the contributor commits, merge current main, tighten the regression proof, and address the initialization race before independent reviews. No merge is planned.

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